Etsuko Pribble

“Our culture reinforces accumulation, spending on luxury items and focusing too much time on material things instead of experiences and relationships. We’ve been taught the false narrative that more stuff equals greater happiness.”
― S.J. Scott, 10-Minute Declutter: The Stress-Free Habit for Simplifying Your Home

“Now, I’m not a fan of fad diets. They simply don’t work long term because they’re either too restrictive or they don’t emphasize a lifestyle that can be maintained. The truth is that the people who follow fad diets do so in a “yo-yo” fashion. They lose weight and then put it back on. Sometimes they’ll even gain more weight. In my opinion, fad diets are usually one step forward, two steps back. Really, the only way to maintain an optimal weight is to focus on lifestyle modification. Weight loss is a simple equation, but is hard to do in the real world. The “magical” formula is to expend more energy than you take in.”
― S.J. Scott, 10,000 Steps Blueprint - the daily walking habit for healthy weight loss and lifelong fitness

“Pushy people assume that because I am an introvert that I can be pushed around. When they push, and I eventually enforce my personal boundaries, they actually become angry with me for doing so. Very irritating and a waste of my time.”
― S.J. Scott, Confident You: An Introvert's Guide to Success in Life and Business

“In other words, our willpower works like a muscle and it weakens throughout the day, since it’s used constantly. We all have a limit to our willpower, and once we’ve reached the limit, it becomes very difficult to focus.”
― S.J. Scott, Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less